2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Community Organization & Advocacy is the 169th most popular major in the country with 3,096 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, community organization and advocacy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,265 and had an average of $26,263 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 179 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,957 and $33,744 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 120 community organization and advocacy graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in community organization and advocacy. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community organization and advocacy program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy in the Plains States Region

1

Metropolitan State University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school handed out 24 degrees to qualified masters’s community organization students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Metropolitan State University Community Organization & Advocacy Report

2

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Organization Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Capella University landed the #2 spot on the list. Capella University is a private for-profit institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 96 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Community Organization & Advocacy at Capella University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Community Organization & Advocacy

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.